Dear Parents and Guardians,

Your child is the most valuable element within The American Nursery School. and Their well-being, future and safety is of our up-most priority.

The environment and curriculum we have setup for our pupils has been targeted to shape them for their future, developing their positive expectations and preparing them for the daily scientific and technological changes, being able to solve any encountered problems, use of imaginations and their curiosities, and be able to show and use critical thoughts and self confidence.

Taking our pupils’ developmental characteristics into consideration we have prepared a solid foundation for our learners in primary and secondary education from the age of 2 with the staged teaching programmes we have prepared. We are proud to say that we have observed the progress of our pupils’ academic success in their primary and college education.

We invite you to share this pride with us...
Binnur Saymaz
The American Nursery School
Principle

Dear Parents,

I am proud to become the principal of the Girne American Elementary in the 2014-2015 academic year. I understand how much responsibility this job has, because as the GAU school groups vision is “Our students should be able to communicate well, be reinforced with national and universal values, be confident, be responsible, to have scientific and analytical views, be integrated with technology, be advanced with their aesthetic views, be productive and creative in order to explore and be curious in learning and to be able to raise and have respect against humanity, the community and nature as a respectful individual”. To achieve this vision, us, as the Girne American Elementary administrative staff and teachers have come together, put our priorities first, discussed our long and short term goals and planned our work into this direction.

Girne American Elementary schools main goal is to be able to create a healthy, qualitative educational atmosphere where our children can feel safe and secure . A school atmosphere that feels peaceful and safe will increase the children’s interest in learning and will lead our children to success.

Our school has begun with two main goals and its priorities have been identified. Our first goal is to raise individuals in the same characteristics as we stated in our vision. To achieve this target we are cooperating with our dear parents and stakeholders responsible for education. We can only meet our children’s physiological, psychological and educational needs by cooperating in this way. You, as parents can communicate with the administration in the times provided, regarding any situation and gain more information from our teacher/teachers about our plans and reinforce your views.

Our second target is to prepare our children in a higher education organization, fully equipped. Whilst following the Ministry of Education’s Turkish curriculum, we heavily follow a curriculum in English as a second language, not only to improve the groundwork of their mother tongue, but also to raise our children to be able to comfortably communicate in English in every way.

Our students can improve their third language, French to a good level after 6 years. We are also proud to figure out our children’s interests and talents by social and cultural activities supplied by our teachers.

I believe that we will create students that are fully equipped for the future by working together and on behalf of my teachers and I, we embrace you with love.

Our School, Our Values

Welcome to the International Prep School!

The International Prep has now completed over 10 academic years and we continue to grow from year to year. Our school consists of students from Reception through to Year 5 and all our lessons, apart from Turkish and French, are taught in English by native speaking staff.
Our staff are fully committed to ensuring the very best teaching and learning for your children.

Welcome from the Principal of Kyrenia Campus

GAU Group of Schools celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. With each passing year we have become stronger and more successful. GAU Group of Schools has firmly established its position amongst the schools in North Cyprus as a centre of excellence in education. The reputation and the academic success of our institution has continued to grow and flourish. Our curriculum now includes a wide range of IGCSE subjects including Economics and Physical Education in addition to our regular Science and Arts subjects. With each passing year our levels of success are improving with 100 % pass rates (grade C and above) in Maths, Information Technology, English, Art and Design, and Turkish. We have further developed AS and A level courses for our students. I am proud to say that Girne American College now provides a truly diverse and international education.

Extra Curricular activities continue to play an important part in the life of our school. Our sporting successes in Basketball,Fencing and Swimming have been proven over the years. We also gained many successes in the Telsim Freezone Inter-School Music Competiton which is held annually.

At GAU The American College we acknowledge that each of our students has different needs and talents. Our aim is to provide all of our students with the opportunity to grow and develop mentally, physically, emotionally and socially.We are fortunate to have a very talented student body who have developed the self confidence to perform in public. This is largely due to the encouragement and dedication of our staff. The staff at our school work closely together and there is a real sense of team spirit. Our teachers are dedicated and committed professionals. Students can always find a member of staff if they need extra help, advice or just a friendly ear to listen to their problems.